Professor of Civil Engineering in National Taiwan University, and Visiting
David Poo is Chairman of Mega Trans International Corporation, a company founded to create transit oriented development (TOD) projects. David has worked extensively in the Greater China region and Asia as a transport consultant. He is better known in Taiwan as the former Director General of Taipei's Department of Transportation, where he initiated a network of exclusive bus lanes that greatly alleviated travel congestion in Taipei some 15 years ago. A life-long proponent for pedestrian and transit priority in our cities, David continues to work on bringing sustainable transport concepts to the attention of city leaders and planning and engineering professionals. As a firm believer of creating win-win solutions, he is also working on the creation of business models that will allow for-profit businesses to have greater participation in sustainable transport development.
Susan Lin is President of Mega Trans International Corporation. Susan was Deputy Director of the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum and, prior to that, she was a veteran business news reporter and newspaper editor for the China Times and Independence Daily in Taipei, where she was a particularly influential press reporter for the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. Today, besides running Mega Trans, she also volunteers as Advisor to the Motorcycle Safety Association of Taiwan. Susan hopes to bring Car Sharing to the Taiwan Market in the near future.
Business Manager at PTRC, which is a specialist in events and training for
Managing Director of EcoPlan International, an independent advisory group in Paris specializing in providing counsel for government and business on policy and decision issues involving social-technical innovation and sustainable development. He is founder of The Commons, the New Mobility Agenda (1988) and
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Professor of the China Academy of Transport Sciences in Beijing. He has served as Executive Director of Transportation Institute in Taiwan, Chair of ITS Asia Pacific Forum, and Scientific Committee Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, among others. Advisor to the Mayor and Taipei City Government since 1994, Dr. Chang has on numerous occasions served as advisor for promotion of sustainable urban and transportation development to international institutes and NGOs. In April 2006, he created a program to train representatives from more than 80 cities for the first Car Free Day activities in China. He served as Principal Investigator to the program "Green Transport for Chinese Cities" from 2000 to 2003, coordinating demonstration projects in more than fifteen cities. He is now hard at work on and widely sharing his green transport theory of BBMW (Bike + Bus + Metro + Walk) in many cities across Asia. --> [
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the transport planning profession. Rory is responsible for managing events and training programs for ACT TravelWise, a membership association with over 400 corporate members promoting best practice in travel planning and smarter choices. Previous to joining PTRC in 2005 he worked in the bicycle industry in marketing and product management roles, for companies including Giant Inc. and Raleigh Bicycles UK. He has been a sustainable transport campaigner since the late 1980's, and currently serves on the steering committee for several voluntary organisations including; Car Free UK, Brixton Transport Transition, Urban Green Fair, Bike Week, and is the serving European Mobility Week Coordinator for the UK. He is the author of 'Cycling to Work - A Beginner's Guide' published by Green Books (2007).. --> [More]
World Streets (2009), the planet's only sustainable transport daily. As part of his problem-solving approach he has created a nesting of collaborative programs which network several thousand experts and concerned citizens in more than forty countries to exchange information on specific areas of transport and technology, and eventually get together to support hands-on collaborative projects. Eric served as co-organizer and chair of the jury of the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities. In recent years his work has concentrated increasingly on the vital transport/climate link, and he has concluded that the most powerful means to achieve better and more sustainable transport is to master the fine art of sharing. -->. [